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Re: Show HN: End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. All Open Source

#12

"All of our code is open source and can be reviewed by anyone. This guarantees maximum security." Can be reviewed doesn't mean has been reviewed. Nor does it imply any quality of review, or the quality of the reviewers itself. And the knife cuts on two sides, though only one side is mentioned, the one side that should attract users. Not the side, that every evil minded person can look through the source code, abuse i…

> Can be reviewed doesn't mean has been reviewed.

Well, you can't blame them if nobody bothers to review their code.

> Not the side, that every evil minded person can look through the source code, abuse it, before we were able to counter/fix etc it.

The same can be said of any other Free Software/Open source project. the Linux kernel and Apache are prime examples.

Re: Show HN: End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. All Open Source

#14

Look great! Could you explain the differences to SeaFile whose code you built upon?

Seafile is a great software we modified to fit our needs. At this point most of the changes we made to Seafile make sure that files are encrypted on the users device.

Re: Show HN: End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. All Open Source

#18

Look great! Could you explain the differences to SeaFile whose code you built upon?

Seafile is a great software we modified to fit our needs. At this point most of the changes we made to Seafile make sure that files are encrypted on the users device.

Seafile already lets users simply encrypt repositories if they want. What did you actually change, just made it default and obligatory?

Re: Show HN: End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. All Open Source

#19

Look great! Could you explain the differences to SeaFile whose code you built upon?

Seafile is a great software we modified to fit our needs. At this point most of the changes we made to Seafile make sure that files are encrypted on the users device.

That fair enough - and tbh. it makes me feel somewhat better if the code is maintained and checked by another company from Germany.

BTW: Am I missing something, or is the upload of files over the web interface not supported?

Re: Show HN: End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. All Open Source

#20
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Can I self-host this? If not, then how can I be sure that your server is running the version of the software in the open-sourced repo?

Why would you need to be sure of that?

Because they can say "hey look at our code here" when in fact they're running something else entirely.
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